CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 July 2008
Company News
Gerber Technology Participates in Opening of Keehwa Hitech’s Laser Cutter Manufacturing Center
Keehwa Hitech Inc., Gerber Technology’s distributor in South Korea, recently held the grand opening of its new Hitech Manufacturing Center, dedicated to the production of laser cutting systems, in Seoul, South Korea. James S. Arthurs, President of Gerber Scientific Asia-Pacific and Chairman of Gerber Technology was the chief guest and addressed the more than 100 people who attended the opening ceremonies. Raymond Cheng, Gerber Technology’s Area Director for Southeast Asia & Korea, also participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony with other local dignitaries.
In his opening remarks, James S. Arthurs congratulated Keehwa on its great achievement to develop laser cutting systems, open a new manufacturing facility and obtain the requisite quality certifications. “Gerber’s relationship with Keehwa has been ongoing for 28 years,” he said. “Together, we have experienced the substantial growth of our business in Korea in the apparel, automotive and technical textiles industries and we work closely with our customers to support them as they have expanded their production capabilities to other countries, most notably in Vietnam and China. There has long been a need for competitively priced laser cutters for automotive airbags and we are pleased to see Keehwa has filled this gap,” he added.
According to Y. H. Shin, President of Keehwa, “This is the second company-owned facility which has been custom designed for the company’s operations. This building will be used exclusively to manufacture laser cutting systems for the cutting of automotive airbags, technical textiles, signs and engraving.” Mr. Shin stated that Keehwa now had four production-version laser cutters in operation in Korea following a three-year development and beta test program. He added that the systems were CE certified for Europe and that Keehwa had already obtained ISO 9001 certification for the development, manufacture and after-sales service of its laser cutters.
In Korea, Gerber Technology has more than 350 customers using over 1,500 systems and workstations which are fully supported and serviced by Keehwa.
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